Associate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Sir Magdi Yacoub Professorship in Tissue Regeneration at UBC| School of Biomedical Engineering

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Job Class
College Bargaining

Job Title
Affiliate Professor (tenure) or Professor (tenure) Sir Magdi Yacoub Professorship in Tissue Regeneration at UBC Faculty of Biomedical Engineering

Division
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering College of Medication Provost and VP Educational (Peter Zandstra)

Posting Finish Date
Might 1, 2024

Observe: Functions might be accepted till 11:59 PM on the day previous to the Posting Finish Date above.

Job Finish Date

The anticipated wage for this place is within the vary of $180,000 to $220,000 each year for the rank of Affiliate Professor with tenure, and $220,000 to $250,000 each year for the rank of Professor with tenure.

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The Faculty of Biomedical Engineering (SBME) on the College of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver campus invitations functions for a full-time college place on the rank of Affiliate Professor with tenure or Professor with tenure. The profitable candidate might be eligible to carry the Sir Magdi Yacoub Professorship in Tissue Regeneration at UBC, topic to college approvals.

The UBC Faculty of Biomedical Engineering is a partnership between the Colleges of Medication and Utilized Science, appearing as a nucleus for training and coaching, analysis, and innovation in biomedical engineering, creating new data, new tutorial and coaching applications, and fostering translation and innovation. Its imaginative and prescient is to rework well being care outcomes via unconstrained exploration of the absolute best integrative options throughout engineering, medication, and biology. By a collaborative, modern, and interdisciplinary strategy and constructing on UBC tutorial and analysis excellence, the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering is rising as a world chief in biomedical engineering analysis, training and translation. For extra details about the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, please go to https://www.bme.ubc.ca/ .

Reporting to the Director of the UBC Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, the profitable candidate might be anticipated to steer an unbiased, internationally-recognized analysis program, take part within the instructing actions of the Faculty, present mentorship and coaching to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate learners, and supply service throughout the College and to the broader tutorial {and professional} neighborhood. Because the holder of the Sir Magdi Yacoub Professorship in Tissue Regeneration, the profitable candidate will assist tissue regeneration and analysis, coaching, and training on the College by making use of a deep understanding of the basics of cell-material interactions and exploring how supplies affect and information mobile behaviour, group and performance on artificial matrices.

The profitable candidate will maintain a PhD in a related self-discipline. If appointed on the rank of Affiliate Professor, the profitable candidate may have demonstrated proof of profitable instructing and talent to direct graduate college students and proof of sustained and productive scholarly exercise. If appointed on the rank of Professor, the profitable candidate may have demonstrated applicable requirements of excellence in instructing, have obtained extensive recognition of their sustained and productive scholarly exercise, and took part considerably in tutorial {and professional} affairs. Candidates could also be anticipated to register, or be eligible to register, with Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (EGBC).  The perfect candidate might be a acknowledged chief within the design, synthesis, and software of biomaterials, advancing therapeutic, diagnostic, and foundational improvements in medication and biology. The profitable candidate’s experience ought to embody superior bio-fabrication strategies, with a particular emphasis on 3D and 4D bioprinting and their implications for cell viability, perform, and tissue group. A concentrate on supplies that affect tissue morphogenesis and performance is desired, accompanied by an understanding of the mechanisms via which supplies modulate tissue development, group, and spatial patterning. Curiosity in “good” supplies that dynamically have interaction with organic methods, in addition to in smooth robotics and stretchable electronics for seamless bio-integration, can also be extremely valued. Whereas a foundational data of tissue engineering is crucial, an entrepreneurial or scientific translation mindset is essential for propelling biomaterial developments from the lab to the affected person. Particular consideration might be given to candidates who’ve considerably contributed to cell and tissue group utilizing artificial supplies, in addition to these with notable achievements and pursuits in lung tissue regeneration and engineering.

The profitable candidate will contribute to fostering an surroundings that promotes inclusivity and embodies values of respect, integrity, compassion, collaboration, and fairness. Fairness, range, inclusion, and justice are important to tutorial excellence, in addition to to fostering an inclusive neighborhood for voices which were traditionally underrepresented or discouraged. Candidates who carry various views and lived experiences are inspired to use as we try to boost range, inclusiveness, socio-cultural illustration, and perspective of the Faculty.

The anticipated wage for this place is within the vary of $180,000 to $220,000 each year for the rank of Affiliate Professor with tenure, and $220,000 to $250,000 each year for the rank of Professor with tenure. The College of Medication is dedicated to providing equitable salaries, making an allowance for the {qualifications} and expertise of the profitable candidate in addition to their years in rank. At UBC, along with a aggressive wage, a beneficiant profit bundle in addition to a extremely valued pension plan and supportive leaves, are included. For extra details about the varied College Advantages Packages accessible at UBC, please go to:  https://hr.ubc.ca/advantages/eligibility-enrolment/eligibility-and-plan-cost/faculty-postdoctoral-fellows-employees-and .  The profitable candidate can even have entry to a complete vary of providers, sources and profession growth alternatives. For extra data, please go to: https://hr.ubc.ca/working-ubc .

Please submit your software on-line at: https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs . An software bundle ought to embrace a letter of software outlining the applicant’s analysis (max 5 pages) and instructing (max 2 pages) pursuits, accompanied by an in depth curriculum vitae and the names of 4 arm’s size references. Please additionally present a short assertion (max 2 pages) that describes any present or deliberate engagements and contributions made to advancing anti-racism, fairness, range, Indigenization and inclusion in tutorial (analysis/scholarship, instructing/studying), skilled (non-academic or scientific work), or neighborhood (native, nationwide, worldwide community-based) contexts.

Ought to you could have any queries round this place, please contact Peter Zandstra ([email protected]).

Assessment of functions will start on Might 1st, 2024 and proceed till the place is stuffed. The anticipated begin date for this place is January 1, 2025 or upon a date to be mutually agreed.

At UBC, we consider that attracting and sustaining a various workforce is vital to the profitable pursuit of excellence in analysis, innovation, and studying for all college, workers and college students. Our dedication to employment fairness helps obtain inclusion and equity, brings wealthy range to UBC as a office, and creates the mandatory circumstances for a rewarding profession.

The College is dedicated to creating and sustaining an inclusive and equitable work surroundings for all members of its workforce. An inclusive work surroundings presumes an surroundings the place variations are accepted, acknowledged, and built-in into present buildings, planning, and decision-making modes. Inside this hiring course of we are going to make efforts to create an inclusive and equitable course of for all candidates (together with however not restricted to folks with disabilities).  Confidential lodging can be found on request for candidates who’re short-listed. Please contact Carmen de Hoog, Director of Strategic Planning and Operations, SBME through e mail at [email protected]

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